Month: October 2025

When is it and what day do we go to winter time?

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Let’s tell you when is the next time change with which we are going to switch to winter time in 2025. Like every year, with the arrival of autumn it is time to change the time again in a large part of Europe. And as always on these dates, we will tell you the exact day on which you have to set the clock forward or back. In this article we are going to tell you the date of the time change and what the change is exactly like. We will also tell you What you need to know about changing the time on your deviceswhich fortunately is little because almost everyone is going to do it alone. When do we go to winter time? The time change with which we are going to switch to winter time in 2025 will be in the early hours of Saturday, October 25 to Sunday, October 26. As always, the change is made on a weekend so that it is as least disruptive as possible to our work day. As happens when we jump to winter time, on Saturday we will have one more hour at night. When it is 3 in the morning we will go again at 2 in peninsular time. Come on, we’ll save an hour, to sleep, to party, or whatever we want. Another consequence of this change is that It will dawn and dusk one hour earlier. This will take us fully into the winter atmosphere, since the afternoons will be darker as dusk falls earlier. Time change and your devices If your device is connected to the Internet, it will only change the timesince it will detect the change automatically and apply it at the operating system level. Come on, you don’t have to do anything on your phone, your car, your tablet or your smart speaker or TV, they will all change the time on their own. However, some unconnected devices may need manual switching of hour. Not all, because many will have the change configured in their operating system, but those with greater simplicity such as ovens, microwaves, air conditioners and others, these will not change the time and you will have to do it. In short, if you are a person who has an alarm clock programmed on your mobile, you will not have to worry about anything. But if you have the typical luminous clock without an internet connection on the nightstand in your room, then don’t forget to change the time when you wake up on Sunday. In Xataka Basics | Hidden Apple Watch gestures: How to choose what it does when you clench your fists or pinch the watch

ChatGPT Atlas is here. It’s the biggest nightmare in the history of Google

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OpenAI has launched Atlas, your first browserand Alphabet has seen $150 billion in market capitalization evaporate in a matter of hours. Shares fell 4.8% shortly after the announcement, recovering slightly to close down 2.4%. The market reaction was no coincidence: Atlas is not (just) Chrome with a chatbot stuck on top, it is a browser designed from scratch around ChatGPT. Why is it important. For two decades, Google has controlled how we access the Internet through a lethal combination: Chrome as a gateway and Google Search as a mandatory destination. Atlas breaks that logic. If your browser has an AI assistant with memory that remembers your preferences, performs complex tasks for you, and directly answers your questions, the traditional search bar no longer makes sense. It is therefore not an incremental improvement, but rather a paradigm shift in the way we navigate. In detail. Atlas eliminates the address bar as the nerve center of the browser and replaces it with ChatGPT. Users can open a side panel in any window to summarize content, compare products, or analyze data without switching tabs. But the star functionality is the “agent mode“, currently reserved for paying subscribers: ChatGPT literally takes control of the mouse and keyboard, surf the web on your behalf, fill out forms, research travel options, add ingredients to the shopping cart. In yesterday’s demo, an OpenAI developer showed how the agent found a recipe and automatically purchased all the ingredients, a process that took several minutes but required no human intervention. “Browser memory” is another key piece. Atlas can remember what you’ve searched for before, what sites you’ve visited, and what projects you have in hand, using that data to suggest actions or automate routines it detects in your behavior. Everything is optional, but the message is clear: OpenAI wants Atlas to know you better than you know yourself. Nothing new with AI. The figures. OpenAI has 800 million weekly active ChatGPT users, double the number in February. Chrome has 3 billion and 71.9% global share. Google controls 90% of the search advertising market. Atlas sounds like a prelude to advertising coming to ChatGPT. Somehow they have to monetize the free users, who not only don’t pay OpenAI, but cost them money. And if OpenAI enters advertising, Google has the most to lose: it could be revenue that stops coming to them. Yes, but. Initial tests of ChatGPT agents have shown slow and imprecise results, where it is very effective to see the browser do tasks for us, but also much slower than if we take care of a few clicks. Plus, the hallucinations are still there. Google has a structural problem– Your business depends on people clicking on ads. If Atlas delivers direct answers without visiting web pages, Google loses. It has integrated Gemini into Chrome and added AI summaries to the results, but the basis of its model remains the same. Internet Explorer seemed invincible in 2007. Within five years, Chrome had surpassed it by offering something substantially better. The 150 billion drop in Alphabet’s capitalization is a sign that investors believe there is a chance that history could repeat itself. In Xataka | Privacy is dying since ChatGPT arrived. Now our obsession is for AI to know us as best as possible Featured image | Xataka with Mockuuups Studio

There is literally nowhere to put more soldiers.

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He housing problem It is an endemic disease that reproduces in practically the whole planet. What was more difficult to imagine is how far the tentacles of the crisis. Germany thought several decades ago that wars were a thing of the past. And now you have encountered a problem rearmament announced of his army: literally, he lacks houses to accommodate so many recruits. Rearmament and housing. The German offensive to rebuild a military capacity that it dismantled for decades has come up against an immediate internal cost: there is no space to house the soldiers that Berlin wants to reincorporate. The Heidelberg case is already a symbol. There, a former US base (abandoned after the end of mandatory military service and Washington’s partial withdrawal) was being converted into a new neighborhood. for 10,000 residentsin a country besieged by a structural shortage of housing. The Government’s idea of reactivate that same base shows the shift in priorities from civil urbanism to defense, pushed by two simultaneous actors: an openly Russia revisionist in the East and an American ally politically volatile. Strain. It we have counted before. The rearmament, furthermore, it is not doctrine on paper: Germany wants add 80,000 soldiers In five years, he considers reintroducing some conscription form and has decided to freeze the civilian conversion of bases, reexamine barracks under state control and reactivate military soil wherever it is useful, even at the cost of tension with local governments and voters. A reduced army. For years, Germany delegated its security to NATO and practiced “checkbook diplomacy”. Namely: commerce, rules and checkbook, but without hard muscle. Bloomberg recalled that the abandonment of recruiting in 2011 left behind an inventory of surplus facilities: 31 bases were closed and some land was sold to cities with housing shortages. Plus: the partial American withdrawal multiplied those gaps. This territorial liquidity made it possible to alleviate a strangled real estate market in medium-sized cities. like Heidelbergsandwiched between hills and with limited supply. The war in Ukraine has reversed the equation: Berlin assumes that the external umbrella is no longer enough and that military shortages It is structuralnot circumstantial. The arithmetic of space. Furthermore, and as analysts point outthe collision is physical and political: each re-militarized base is one less neighborhood in a country with skyrocketing rents and exhausted voters. In fact, researchers warn of an inevitable internal conflict because two legitimate goods (credible defense and affordable housing) compete for a non-expandable resource: land. The Government has already suspended the civil conversion of military properties, accelerated military work (+20% in 2024) and plans 270 new barracks for 40,000 troops from 2027. The modernization of military infrastructure exceeds 67,000 million until the 2040s, and the Bundestag processes a fast-track package with flexibility of procedures and exemptions low threshold of 1 million to gain speed. Negotiation window. Heidelberg still hopes to save its macro-project if the Defense considers the base inadequate for military use or if a kind of hybrid (barracks + neighborhood) is agreed upon that makes it possible to make security and urban fabric compatible. The municipal team admits who miss the economic footprint of US bases, but emphasize that civilian urbanization alleviates the housing bottleneck. There is no doubt, the current clash distills the German transition from the era of peaceful dividends towards a defense economy that requires redo what was dismantled: money, people, land and social consensus to rebuild against the clock. Fracture of the social contract. If you want, the impasse The current situation also reveals a temporal crack: Germany urbanized and planned as if geopolitics had been abolished after 1991 (end of the USSR and end of the Cold War), reallocating military land to housing under the premise of an environment without major wars in Europe. That assumption (which also ordered budgets, mentalities and territorial planning for three decades) collapsed the February 24, 2022. Today the country operates with institutions, urban planning laws and citizen expectations designed for a post-war era that no longer exists, while it is seen forced to reinsert in a scenario with infrastructure, densities and land uses inherited from prolonged peace. The clash between barracks and floors is not only physical: it is the clash between two historical calendars that coexist in the same territory, that of civil normality and that of abrupt return. of strategic risk. Image | Markus Rauchenberger In Xataka | The US no longer has to worry about Spain or the rearmament bill in Europe. Germany had a plan B In Xataka | The most pacifist city in Germany lived off its legendary train factory. Now they will make it from a gigantic tank factory

The border between Morocco and Algeria was closed in 1994. 30 years later, the fight threatens to claim its most unexpected piece: the date

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A strong, dry, accurate blow is enough. Only one, in the center of the chest. When this happens, the diaphragm contracts violently and the body exhales all the air it has inside: the person is temporarily unable to inhale. That is exactly what happened to the international date market on October 10, 2025: it was left breathless. And the reason was a misunderstanding. That and a very long diplomatic conflict that always ends up affecting Spain. What has happened? October 10. The advice of GIDattes (the Tunisian interprofessional date group) published a statement in which the start of exports was announced of dates. Business as usual, really. But they added a clarification that set off all the alarms: “to all markets except the Moroccan one.” In a matter of hours, everyone interpreted that Tunisia was vetoing the export of these fruits to the west. October 13 and 14. Given the widespread noise and uncertainty in the sector, the GIDattes He clarified that there was no type of exclusion. Simply put, as it is the main export market, These required a special calendar that would be approved on October 20. October 19, 20 and 21. But it was too late, the Moroccan employers’ associations and producer groups had smelled blood. For the first time in years, there was a 20% chance (19.7% in 2024) of the dates consumed by the country would disappear from the equation: the profits for local producers would be enormous. October 21. After the meeting on the 20th, the Tunisian press reported that there would indeed be exports to Morocco at the end of October: “like every year“. What does Algeria have to do with all this? Moroccan farmers have gone directly to where it hurts most: they have accused Tunisian dates of be Algerian. It is, moreover, a classic accusation of the Moroccan countryside. Something that no one can completely rule out (due to the traditional traceability deficits of the Maghreb), but that no one really takes seriously. Although it is not going through its best moment, Tunisia is a giant in the world of dates. He doesn’t need Algeria at all. But Algeria is a sensitive issue in the western end of North Africa. A little context. The historical enmity between Morocco and Algeria can be traced back to the very independence of these territories: border disputes ended up leading to the War of the Sands of 1963 and, above all, in the Algerian support for the Polisario Front in Western Sahara. In 94, an attack in Marrakech (in which two Spaniards died) caused a diplomatic conflict that closed the enormous land border between both countries. They have not been reopened and, in fact, in 2021, diplomatic and commercial relations they are broken. Suffice it to say that, if the accusations of the Moroccan producers are confirmed, the Tunisian date would disappear from the markets of the Alawite state. Why is all this so important? This has had an impact on the international date market because, although Tunisia is in the doldrums (and Saudi Arabia has overtaken it in recent years) it is still the second country in date exports. A decision such as that of vetoing the largest importer of dates in the world, Morocco, would have caused a violent restructuring of commercial networks around the globe. To all this we must add a key fact: the third country in date exports, Israel. Today (with or without a peace agreement) no one knows exactly what will happen to the tens of thousands of tons that the Hebrew country puts on the market each year. And that, logically, generates even more uncertainty. The important thing is in the details. In dates, for example. In recent days Steve Witkof and Jared Kushner (Trump’s special envoys) revealed that they were working to reach an agreement between Morocco and Algeria that would solve the Sahara issue. It is quite possible: the US president’s obsession with ‘ending all the world’s wars’ may have put a conflict like this in the spotlight. One, furthermore, that involves a traditional ally of Washington. However, dates show us that everything is more complicated than it seems. Is the delicate balance of the Mediterranean about to be blown up? We will see it in the coming months. Image | In Xataka | Morocco holds a new record: being the African country with the highest growth of millionaires in the last decade

In its race to make advanced chips, China has tried to copy ASML. It’s going wrong

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China continues to make extraordinary progress when it comes to manufacturing its own advanced chips, but it still has a big problem: it does not currently have manufacturing equipment. extreme ultraviolet photolithography (UVE) own. Of course is working in the development of this technology, and one of the strategies it is following to overcome this challenge is unique… and almost obvious. Reverse engineering. In his 2010 book ‘Copycats’ Professor Oded Shenkar argued that it is often the case that imitators end up triumphing over innovators. Although in the West the view is the opposite, in China there is a positive view of copying and reverse engineering processes are an important tool to copy technologies. That is what the country has supposedly tried, as indicated in The National Interest (TNI). From producing for the world to producing for themselves. Already we review the conclusions from the book ‘Apple in China’, which is a perfect example of how by delegating production to China, Western companies have ended up contributing to the country’s development and its specialization. The trade war has logically made China now seek its independence in the face of the vetoes it is suffering from developing its own technological solutions. From UVP to UVE. There has already been significant progress in this area, and recently we counted as a Chinese manufacturer already has a prototype of a UVP machine (deep ultraviolet) for the creation of relatively advanced chips. If there is a crucial challenge to be able to create these even more advanced chips, it is power. have UVE photolithography machinesbut having that first problem solved is important to make the leap to EUV technology. And this is where something unique has been discovered. Let’s see how it works inside. As revealed in TNI, it has been revealed that China has been “caught” trying to reverse engineer a machine ASML UVP Photolithography. Not so much to mass produce these machines, sources indicate, but because Chinese technicians are trying to learn how they work in order to replicate them and, from them, develop more advanced machines and chips. It’s not broken just because. However, it seems that when disassembling one of these ASML systems, Chinese technicians damaged it. That made them notify the official ASML technicians to solve the problem. When they arrived, they discovered that the machine had not simply broken, but that the Chinese had tried to dismantle it and then reassemble it. ASML’s de facto monopoly. ASML’s UVE photolithography machines are considered the most complex and advanced in the world, and the truth is that today the Dutch company has a de facto monopoly with such systems. It is these machines that allow access to the production of the most advanced chips – such as those used in NVIDIA’s modern AI accelerators – and have become the true bottleneck of the semiconductor industry. Beyond the damaged machine. The incident reveals two crucial points. The first, Beijing’s extreme urgency to be able to control chip production from start to finish. The second is that the challenge of creating these machines goes beyond mere hardware copying: lithography systems require extraordinary technical mastery of components such as precision optics or materials science. Too many obstacles? China may have brilliant engineers, but ASML machines also have a highly specialized supply chain which undoubtedly makes it difficult for such a machine to be built entirely in China. A good example is Zeiss SMTthe German company that supplies the ultra-precision optical systems and mirrors needed for UVE and advanced UVP photolithography systems. A long way to go. This supposed problem reveals the difficulties that China is going through in order to have machines with advanced photolithographic technologies. At Nikkei Asia They were already talking in July about how complex it is to achieve a “Chinese ASML.” In this analysis they cited Didier Scemama, director of hardware research at BofA Global Research, who estimated that China still has years to achieve something like this. “It may take 5, 10, 15 years, we don’t know. Will it be competitive with what ASML does? It’s highly unlikely, but it will be good enough for China.” Image | Zeiss In Xataka | Holland has just declared war on China in the most important battle of the century: control of semiconductors

The new iPad Pro and MacBook Pro with M5 chip are now on sale and you can buy them in these stores

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Last week Apple presented two new MacBook Pro and iPad modelswhose main novelty, compared to previous generations, is the integration of M5 chip. Although they could already be reserved, both devices officially go on sale today. We tell you the stores where you can get them and the prices at which they are available. Apple Macbook Pro 14” M5 Cpu 10, Gpu 10, 16gb Ram, 512gb SSD Silver The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Apple iPad Pro 11″ (M5) 256 GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links MacBook Pro M5 He MacBook Pro M5 is available at an official price of 1,829 euros in its 14-inch version and with 512 GB and from 2,829 euros in its 16-inch version, although it is only for sale in the official Apple store. At MediaMarkt, you can get it even 100 euros cheaper, if you take advantage of the “-€100 buyback” promotion with which they give you that amount for your old MacBook. This new high-end laptop from Apple, the MacBook Pro M5 It has a 14-inch Liquid Retina macOS 26 operating system and its battery offers up to 16 hours of navigation. Comes with WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, 3.5mm jack, MagSafe 3 charging port, HDMI, card slot and three ports Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C). Apple Macbook Pro 14” M5 Cpu 10, Gpu 10, 16gb Ram, 512gb SSD Silver The price could vary. We earn commission from these links iPad Pro The other Apple device that can be purchased from today is the iPad Pro M5. It is available from 1,039 euros at PcComponentes, in its 11-inch and 256 GB version or from 1,449 euros (on MediaMarkt), in its 13-inch version with 256 GB. In both versions (11 and 13 inches), this iPad Pro M5 has a Super Retina XDR OLED display with resolution of 2,420 x 1,668 pixels. Both its rear and front cameras are 12 MP and its battery offers up to 10 hours of navigation. It works under the iPadOS 26 operating system. In the connectivity section, it comes with WiFi 7, Bluetooth 6USB-C 4 Thunderbolt and also integrates four studio-quality speakers. Apple iPad Pro 11″ (M5) 256 GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Apple iPad Pro 13″ (M5) 256 GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some accessories that may interest you for these two devices tomtoc 360° Briefcase Case for New 14″ MacBook Pro M5 The price could vary. We earn commission from these links ESR iPad Pro 11 Inch Case (M5/M4) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Fran León and Apple In Xataka | MacBook Air Vs MacBook Pro: we explain which one to choose In Xataka | Which iPad to buy. Analysis of Apple’s tablet catalog with recommendations based on use and budget

features, price and technical sheet

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Samsung has just launched its long-awaited rival for Apple Vision Pro. Your new mixed reality glasses are the Samsung Galaxy XRand certainly its benefits are promising. We have a device that does practically everything that the Vision Pro does, but that also does it by opening a new alternative with the Android XR operating system. Not only that: they have achieved it with a lighter design and, above all, with a price that is half that of the Vision Pro. We already tested them at Google I/O a few months agobut finally we have them with us officially. Let’s get to know them in depth. Technical sheet of the Samsung Galaxy XR Samsung Galaxy xr Screens 3,552 x 3,840 Micro-OLED displays, 27 million pixels, 95% DCI-P3 60, 72 and up to 90 Hz refresh rates FOV: 109º (horizontal) / 100º (vertical) SoC Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 Platform Memory 16 GB Storage 256GB Camera Supports 3D (spatial) photo and video capture 6.5MP, 18mm, f/2.0 Sensors Two high-resolution cameras for pass-through Six cameras that capture the exterior Four cameras that capture the eye Five Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) depth sensor Flicker sensor Audio and video Two two-way speakers (woofer + tweeter) Six-microphone array Support Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Atmos Support 5K Video at 60 FPS, HDR10, HLG Battery Up to 2 hours of general use Up to 2.5 hours of video playback The glasses can be used while the battery is recharging Connectivity Wi-Fi 7 Bluetooth 5.4 Biometrics Iris recognition support for unlocking the device and entering passwords pupillary distance 54-70mm Prescription lenses can be purchased separately Weight 545g (with pads) External battery: 302g Price $1,799 Light, promising… and much cheaper The first thing that surprises about the Samsung Galaxy XR is its weight, which is reduced to 545 grams compared to 800 grams of the Apple Vision Pro (2025) with band included. Samsung’s intention here is evident: to ensure that we can use the glasses for prolonged periods without ending up with any discomfort or those marks around the eyes that the Vision Pro usually leave when used for long sessions. The design of the glasses is similar to that offered by the Apple model, but here we have a kind of “visor”, a pad on the top of the glasses that allows us to barely receive any light from the outside as soon as we put them on. The Samsung Galaxy XR look like somewhat bulkier ski goggles: the front is dominated by glassand behind it you can see several cameras that capture both what surrounds us and the gestures we make with our hands. Inside it has micro-OLED screens that support 4K resolutions at 90 Hz but also allow you to enjoy 8K video at 60 FPS. There are no specific details about the battery capacity, but Samsung promises that in general use it can last two hours and When playing video, this autonomy is extended to a maximum of two and a half hours. The limitation here is similar to that of the Vision Pro, although like them, the Samsung Galaxy XR can be used with the external battery (which weighs 302 grams, slightly more than a large mobile phone) connected. There is another important element in this design: the strap with which we adjust the glasses cannot be separated from the glasses: it is a light plastic band with a padded back and a dial that allows you to adjust it firmly at the head. This seems to be one of the sections in which Samsung has preferred to make sacrifices: the Apple bands are interchangeable and the materials are more advanced, but in the Galaxy XR the objective was to simplify that section and, we suppose, reduce costs. In fact, the price is one of the most powerful arguments of this device: while the Apple Vision Pro costs $3,499, The Samsung Galaxy XR costs $1,799. Practically half the price for a product that promises to do the same thing with the same quality as its rival. If it lives up to that promise, we are looking at a particularly attractive product. A user experience modeled on visionOS… but with Gemini Once we have them on, we can expect a user experience practically identical to that offered by the Vision Pro. To begin with, the cameras allow us to capture the outside and make we can see it at all times thanks to the passthrough which promises to be remarkable although not perfect: we will see everything around us, but there are still differences with seeing that exterior with our own eyes. As in Apple’s glasses, Android XR and the eye-tracking cameras inside the Galaxy The appearance of this interface is that of Android XR, but with a design and interaction that once again They are basically the same as what Apple proposed with visionOS. Samsung promises immersive environments, spatial photos – there is also the option to convert 2D photos into spatial photos – and the ability to connect to a PC or laptop to use the glasses as an external monitor on which to open several windows. However, a potential advantage of these glasses that on Android XR we have the power of Gemini. The executives of Samsung and Google stressed in a conversation with the media that this device had “AI at its core” in reference to the ability to use Gemini to interact with the Galaxy XR. This means that, for example, if we read a physical magazine with glasses on (thanks to passhtrough) we can use the “Circle to search” function at any time to obtain more information about a certain part of the text or an image. If we see an immersive 3D map in Google Maps, we can ask Gemini things about that area. And if we watch a YouTube video, we can open a Gemini Live session, share our screen with the AI ​​and ask questions about what we’re watching because Gemini “will see what we … Read more

This app helps you fake your dream vacation

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There are times when entering Instagram it means getting depressed; people living dream lives and us at home with our pajamas on. Don’t worry because there is a new app with which you can also join the wave of posturing, one that uses AI to generate fake images of a vacation that never existed. Who needs vacations when you can invent them? Endless summer. The app in question is called Endless Summer and was created by Laurent del Rey, one of the members of the Meta superintelligence teamjust as they say in TechCrunch. Its creator defines the app as “a simple photo booth application to generate fake snapshots of your vacation, for when you feel exhausted and need to manifest the quiet life you deserve.” Because of course, if you are exhausted from working, the best thing is to invent a life in which you don’t work and are happy, no one ever said. The price of posturing. The app is available free for iPhone and the first two photos are free, but creating a larger album of your fake vacation is going to cost you money. Specifically 3.99 euros for 30 images, 19.99 euros for 150 images and 39.99 euros for 300 images. The result is quite good and, except for the clothes, I recognize myself in the photos that Endless Summer has taken for me, but you can’t choose where you want the AI ​​to take you on vacation. In my case it has been to a fast food restaurant in Los Angeles and a cafeteria in Paris. I’ve been to Los Angeles and I haven’t left this burger joint. Nano Banana. It is the model that the app uses to generate images. He spices it up with his own prompts to achieve that analog look and different variations of the subject. Nano Banana can be used within Gemini, so you don’t need to spend anything to create your fake vacation photos, just give it a nice prompt. Superintelligence. As we said at the beginning, the creator of Endless Summer is part of the superintelligence team that Zuckerberg has been forming all summer at the stroke of a checkbook. The best AI talents gather at the Meta offices to obtain the AGI (or That’s what Zuckerberg wanted). The reality is that we do not know much about its progress, only that They recently launched Vibes, an app to explore AI videos that was eclipsed days later by Sora 2 by OpenAIand that one of its members has just released a very frivolous app without much sense… Images | Endless Summer In Xataka | Meta does not have the most advanced AI of all, but it does have something much more important: a business plan

30 cents per item sold and many robots

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Amazon has taken a new step in its strategy extreme optimization of its infrastructure, and has put automation at the center. According to leaked internal documents to The New York Timesthe company seeks to automate up to 75% of its global operations by the end of this decade, a measure that could have a direct impact on the employment of its logistics and delivery centers. The economic logic behind robots. In the leaked Amazon documents it is estimated that with the introduction of new generations of rautonomous robots In its facilities, it will be possible to eliminate up to 160,000 direct jobs in the US by 2027, and avoid hiring more than 600,000 additional workers that the company estimates it would need to meet its objectives in 2033. Amazon’s internal calculations detail that automation would allow an average saving of 30 cents on each item purchased in the Amazon store until 2027 and they expect to sell twice as many products by 2033. Which according to estimates, could mean a saving of about 12.6 billion dollars for the next two years, improving the initial forecasts of 10 billion dollars. Logistics centers 2.0. The Amazon work documents you’ve had access to The New York Times indicate that the plan not only aims at direct cost savings, but also aims to achieve these savings by carrying out a complete restructuring of the warehouses. Amazon has tripled its workforce since 2018, and currently has 1.2 million employees. Many of them are busy in their logistics centers in repetitive areas such as packaging. Amazon’s intention is automate all these processes with robots and leaving humans only the tasks of technical development and supervision. According to estimates, only with the implementation of robots in these positions, current sales volumes could be maintained using 40% fewer staff. “No one else has the same incentive as Amazon to find a way to automate. Once they figure out how to do it profitably, it will spread to others as well,” he told The New York Times Daron AcemogluNobel Prize in Economics in 2024. The Canary in the Mine: Shreveport. Amazon’s obsession with robotizing all its processes is not new. In 2012, Amazon paid 775 million dollars by Kiva Systems, a company that was then dedicated to manufacturing mobile robots to move shelves in warehouses. With them, it applied a first layer of automation to its logistics centers between 2018 and 2019, so that its employees no longer had to walk kilometers between shelves preparing orders. Now orders arrived on robots to the packing points. In 2023 Amazon inaugurated your most advanced warehouse in Shreveport (Louisiana) as a laboratory for what all Amazon’s robotic logistics centers will be in the future. in that warehousewhen a product goes into an order, humans barely touch it again. To do this, Amazon has designed an infrastructure with a thousand robots that have allowed it to operate with 25% staff. As shown by the documents to which he has had access The New York TimesBy increasing the number of robots, the number of employees could be reduced by 50%. Amazon plans to bring the Shreveport model to 40 of the company’s fulfillment centers by 2027, dramatically reducing staffing needs at those locations. Who will work at Amazon? amazon claims to have a million robots of different nature deployed in their logistics centers. If these robots are going to take the place of a human, will theywho is going to work at Amazon? Andy Jassy, ​​CEO of the company, is clear: the humans who program, care for and repair them will be the employees of the future. According to the American media, in the Shreveport center there are more than 160 people dedicated to these robotics tasks, and their salaries start at $24.45 per hour. In contrast, the more than 2,000 employees who manage and pack orders have a salary of $19.50 per hour. That is, Amazon aims to be a job center not for low-skilled workers, but for robotics engineers and technicians. Amazon’s response. Given the news, Amazon spokespersons have rushed to qualify the information from the Times claiming: “Leaked documents often present an incomplete and misleading picture of our plans, and that is the case. In our written narrative culture, thousands of documents circulate throughout the company at any given time, each with varying degrees of accuracy and timeliness,” declared to The Verge Kelly Nantel. The Amazon spokeswoman added: “We are actively hiring at operating facilities across the country and recently announced plans to fill 250,000 positions for the holiday season.” In Xataka | While companies boast of efficiency due to AI. Generation Z only sees temporary contracts and closed doors Image | amazon

Anthropic is spending much more money than it brings in. The question is how long can it continue like this?

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How much does AI cost? That question can be answered by AWS, which has billed Anthropic a whopping $2.66 billion so far this year. The problem is twofold, because in that same period it is estimated that Anthropic has earned 2.55 billion dollars, so with that alone it has spent more than it earns. But Anthropic has many more expenses and the accounts, once again, do not work out in the AI ​​segment. Why is it important. The data revealed by Ed Zitron confirms the problem they face all AI startups: They spend (much) more than they earn, and that trend does not seem to be reversing. In fact, although these companies are growing in revenue, they are also growing proportionally in expenses. And the question, of course, is whether this pace is sustainable. The Anthropic case. According to Zitron data, in 2024 Anthropic earned between $400 and $600 million, but spent $1.35 billion on AWS, that is, 226% of its income. The trend appears to continue in 2025, because the share of spending on AWS is 104% of its revenue. It seems that things have improved, but that expense does not include what it costs Anthropic use Google Cloud infrastructureanother of its partners in all its operations. The expenditure on it is also likely to be enormous, which complicates the situation. The mystery of unexplained costs. The unaccounted cost gap is also enormous. In 2024 Anthropic’s total spending was estimated at 6.2 billion dollars. If we know that he spent $1.35 billion on AWS, there is $4.85 billion left that is not explained. That suggests that spending on Google Cloud and other operational costs is absolutely astronomical. In fact, computing costs may be much higher than we thought. Another startup desperate for investment. Meanwhile, Anthropic continues to raise capital. Zitron analysis reveals that between 2023 and 2025 achievement raise investment rounds for a total of 37.5 billion dollars (20,000 of them in 2025 alone). A good part of that money came precisely from the companies that provide infrastructure: Amazon and Google. Despite that funding, Anthropic appears as desperate as OpenAI to raise new rounds of investment. The company run by Dario Amodei recently resorted to money from Middle Eastern countries, for example. Spending continues to skyrocket. The study figures further reveal that Anthropic spends more the more time passes. In January 2024, it spent $52.9 million on AWS, but in December 2024 that amount rose to $176.1 million. In September 2025, it is estimated that spending on AWS was no less than $518.9 million: the escalation in costs is very notable. And he tightens the screws on Cursor. One of Anthropic’s most important clients is the startup vibe coding Cursor. This company has clearly been affected by that situation, and Cursor’s costs on AWS doubled from $6.19 million in May 2025 to $12.67 million in June. Just in those Anthropic months implement the so-called “Service Levels” with which it forced business customers to spend a minimum amount and pay higher rates for prompt caching, a special component designed for startups that use generative AI models for programming. What did Cursor do? Increase prices (and apologize for it) of your customer subscriptions. This can’t go on like this forever. For Zitron, always very critical of this reality of AI companies, the conclusion is clear: Anthropic’s costs are out of control. In fact, he argues that they increase practically linearly with respect to revenue, which makes their business model unsustainable. The only solution is to increase prices drastically (possibly 100%) to become profitable. The problem is that the market accepts paying twice as much at once for AI as it currently pays for. Image | Anthropic | Taylor Vick In Xataka | Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 4.5 can clone a service like Slack in 30 hours. The reality is more complicated

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